Thanks Lobster, I will download Saluki!
My sentimental attachment to JWM and ROX will have to be put to one side.
mark_________________My System:Arch-Arm on RPi!
"RacyPy" puplet on Toshiba Tecra 8200. PIII, 256 MB RAM.
RaspberryPy: Lobster and I blog about the RPi.

Apart from that I trust it would be a win-win thing to cooperate with Jemimah.
She is good at coding. I don't agree with her preference for double click
instead of single click and the choice of browser but she is the dev and
I am just a happy user to have this many devs giving us puppy varieties
It is a blessing indeed. So many opportunities to find something to like.

Take a look at Iguleder and his roar-ng and Subilto OS too.
He is inventive trying to start anew with same approach as Barry.
To do his own thing. Such is encouraging. Sorry my crazy English_________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

Thanks Nooby,
Now I have had a chance to try Saluki, I think it would be better to join in with that project!
mark_________________My System:Arch-Arm on RPi!
"RacyPy" puplet on Toshiba Tecra 8200. PIII, 256 MB RAM.
RaspberryPy: Lobster and I blog about the RPi.

I'm afraid I don't quite know what you mean about "dependency resolution" - is this about making sure things will work on other versions?

Here is an example. I just built Gourmet, a recipe manager written in python. But it won't run without the following packages installed: Python, PIL,reportlab,SQLAlchemy. If you have a working PPM you can just specify those in the pet.specs file so when a user installs it, the dependencies are also downloaded and installed.

If you use Racy, you will have to figure out how to set up your own repo. This is not as easy as it should be. It's taken me a month or so to get it going and I'm still fixing bugs.

Here is an example. I just built Gourmet, a recipe manager written in python. But it won't run without the following packages installed: Python, PIL,reportlab,SQLAlchemy. If you have a working PPM you can just specify those in the pet.specs file so when a user installs it, the dependencies are also downloaded and installed.

Thanks jemimah, that makes sense. I did try to help Dromeno (on this forum) to get a working version of Gourmet and failed miserably!

And I am writing this on my Pentium3 (512mb RAM) running Saluki, by the way!

Am I right in thinking that there isn't a Python3 package for Saluki (I looked in PPM). If that's so, I might have a go at putting together a pet for Python 3.1.4 as my first compile on Saluki.

I am working on the next version of this puplet. It will be based on Saluki.

Many thanks to Jemimah for helping me to get the IDLE working for Python 2.7.

The new version will include Python 2.7 and 3.1, both with Pygame. I am doing this because I know plenty of people have not made the shift to Python 3.

This time I will not bundle the devx in with the main .sfs, which should result in a smaller .iso for those who don't need to compile right away.

There will be more Python tutorials available for offline study.

I'm thinking that there may be quite a few people who didn't get a RPi from the first batch who will find this CD useful. As before the idea is that you can just boot from the CD and start coding, with no prior knowledge of Linux or Python.

I'll have to rename it - it can't be RacyPy - SalukiPy sounds nice too!_________________My System:Arch-Arm on RPi!
"RacyPy" puplet on Toshiba Tecra 8200. PIII, 256 MB RAM.
RaspberryPy: Lobster and I blog about the RPi.

Here's a screenshot of what "SalukiPy" will look like.
It has the lovely 'puptie' image as wallpaper.
You can see here that Pythons 2.7 and 3.1.4 are running and both have imported pygame without complaint.

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